Kayak Software Corporation

Paul D Schwenk

Paul M English

Lincoln D Jackson

Jeff A Rago

Giorgos C Zacharia

Derek M Young

Travis M Gebhardt

Brenda L White

Kristin P Harkness

Jeffrey A Rago

A travel search engine enables a user to share his or her search results with one or more other users in real time. Each of the users has a common set of search results and any user can select share a specific result within the common set. The remaining results in the common set can be independently filtered and sorted. By selectively sharing various ones of the search results, while being able to separately manipulate the remaining search results, users have access to a common set of potentially mutually acceptable results, but can still individually explore the search results by filtering along different criteria.

Sharing and collaboration of search results in a travel search engine

The present invention provides a methodology and system for efficiently performing travel reservation queries and presenting significant search results to a user. A travel reservation search engine constructs a first query from one or more constraints. The first query has a threshold probability of returning a first set of search results that will lead to the purchase of a travel reservation. Additionally, if determined necessary by the search engine a second query is constructed from one or more constraints. The second query returns a second set of search results.

Multi-phase search and presentation for vertical search websites

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Stow, MA, United States of America

Paul D Schwenk